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The Guild House:

Designed by the american architect Robert Charles Venturi, one of the major architectural figures in the twentieth century, he's known for his famous saying ''Less is a bore'', he lives in philadelphia.

Robert Venturi

The guild house is a residential building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, it consists of apartments for low-income senior citizens, and it's one of the most earliest expressions for postmodernism, and it was the first major work for Robert Venturi.

The guild house is a six- story building with a symmetrical facade, The facade is anchored by a thick column of polished black granite and crowned with a large arched window opening, A large block-letter sign above the entrance spells the name of the building, while the roof was originally crowned with an oversize, nonfunctional television antenna serving as both an abstract sculptural element and a literal representation of the inhabitants' chief pastime.

The guild house's main facade

The building contains 91 apartment units,the stepped organization of the facade allowed most of the units to have south, east, or west-facing windows, giving the inhabitants sunlight and a view of the street below,winding interior corridors were intended to create a more intimate and informal space.

The guild house's entrance showing the black granite column